2nd Annual Summer of Arcade kicks off July 22nd

re: 2nd Annual Summer of Arcade kicks off July 22nd

Sticky Stalwart — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:20:37 GMT

1200 MS points is too high for these games. Please go back to 800 being the norm.

I will not spend that much on a downloadable game. Castle Crashers taught me that - fun long game, but 1200 for it I was not happy about.

I don't have to play these games on the 360 to know they are not worth the 1200 points.

For example - why soup up Turtles in Time for 1200, when I would have paid the 800 to play it in it's classic form?

Please keep the lower price point in mind, Microsoft. We are in a recession here.

re: 2nd Annual Summer of Arcade kicks off July 22nd

CheekyLeeth — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:35:58 GMT

SuburbanBoy hit the most important detail. When the developers of a game think that the price is too much, something is seriously wrong. Jonathon Blow didn't want to charge 1200 for Braid, Jeff Minter had to fight to get Space Giraffe at 400, and Bizarre Creations didn't even want to charge at all for Geometry Wars! It is simple economical fact that more people have £1/$1 to spare than have £5/$5, and more people will buy games that cost them below ten of their local currency than will buy games that cost more than ten. Such short-sighted thinking will only hurt you long term, MS.

Here is what I am talking about. This week's deal is Ikaruga, at 400. I have wanted this game since it was launched, but since I still have the DreamCast version I never bothered. I have just never had enough spare cash to justify the 800. Now, though? That price is extremely hard to resist. I am willing to bet that sales of Ikaruga this week increase by a few thousand percent. Ok, knowledge that it is for a limited time only will help to concentrate the figures, thus making single week sales more of a blip than the norm, but I would guarantee that it would sell more over time at 400 than it ever will at 800.

re: 2nd Annual Summer of Arcade kicks off July 22nd

Flame Killa 2 — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:16:41 GMT

TMNT 1200 points.... Very dissapointing...

re: 2nd Annual Summer of Arcade kicks off July 22nd

Static Jak — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:12:23 GMT

Simply put, I've yet to play an arcade game that's near worth that much. I wouldn't play those after just two weeks. So why bother throwing out that much?

re: 2nd Annual Summer of Arcade kicks off July 22nd

Hayden267 — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:23:49 GMT

I figured TMNT would be 800, but I also thought Shadow Complex would be 1600 so it all evens out for me. I don't see the problem with $15 games as long as they are good. If they can charge $60 for all the crappy movie games, I'd say $15 for an arcade game that is great isn't that bad. That's just my opinion though. I know I'll definitely be getting Shadow Complex, TMNT, and 'Splosion Man. I might even pick up MvC2.

re: 2nd Annual Summer of Arcade kicks off July 22nd

Damake85 — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:08:55 GMT

Shadow complex is the only game in that list that I will most likely get, because it seems to be in the same category as Castle crashers for me (new game, old awesome gameplay), the rest of them are overpriced.

re: 2nd Annual Summer of Arcade kicks off July 22nd

Tehis — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:27:57 GMT

1200 points for tmnt is too much :(

re: 2nd Annual Summer of Arcade kicks off July 22nd

Karachi King — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:28:11 GMT

@Biomonkey and PriusGuy2004: Just because you think it, doesn't make it true. The prices may have increased over the last few years, but (in general) the quality of the games has increased too.

@SeeUInTheFuture: Mate, I think you need a bit of perspective. You have to wait a couple of weeks for something, and it's got you so mad that you not only swear at someone who probably couldn't change it if he wanted to, you do it again just to get around the censor filter...

re: 2nd Annual Summer of Arcade kicks off July 22nd

SeeUInTheFuture — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:11:18 GMT

No dont f'ing censor me damnit! I said F U C K YOU! Making me wait another two weeks for my Fvorite game of all time, a butchered version too may I add

re: 2nd Annual Summer of Arcade kicks off July 22nd

SeeUInTheFuture — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:09:20 GMT

You switched Turtles In Time?! *** you!

re: 2nd Annual Summer of Arcade kicks off July 22nd

Nex Antonius — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:17:34 GMT

Seriously? "Robbing" us? Should they give away the games for free? No, I bet that would still be "robbery." I don't know how any of you even own 360's or retail games, considering those prices are far higher than any XBLA game. Oh, well. More fun for the people who don't cry over every single XBLA game over 800 points.

re: 2nd Annual Summer of Arcade kicks off July 22nd

PriusGuy2004 — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:56:55 GMT

@Biomonkey...I had the same thoughts...maybe this is just me being "old school", but when I hear the word "arcade", I think of Dig Dug, Ms. Pac Man, Frogger, etc. Surely there must have been a reason for the 1600 MS points cards you can buy for $20 at your favorite store. Are we going to be seeing new 2400 MS points cards for $30 soon? The prices for these games are disappointing to me, and I'll be waiting for a possible "deal of the week", along with several others, before I make the decision to buy.

re: 2nd Annual Summer of Arcade kicks off July 22nd

Biomonkey — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:22:27 GMT

I think MS needs to have another name for these 1200-1600 MP Games, because when you think on arcade game you think 400-800 MP. Just my opinion.

re: 2nd Annual Summer of Arcade kicks off July 22nd

solsol360 — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:20:36 GMT

Sounds like Summer of Greed to me.

re: 2nd Annual Summer of Arcade kicks off July 22nd

SuburbanBoy TM — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:56:36 GMT

The prices arent really "OK" at all. Take Madballs this wednesday, the devs are reputedly furious its been priced at 1200 points by Microsoft, and its basically going to harm them financially as less people buy at the higher price, thus less word of mouth gets out about what is a potentially fantastic XBLA title, thus another decent game gets buried by Microsofts daft pricing policy. MS of course are happy to sell the same games on the cheap to various other benefactors/outlets (eg: Amazon) whereas the actual public gets hit in the wallet the hardest. No coincidence the prices have gone up since they have have started doing this, and the so called xbox live gold only "deals", which arent really "deals" per say at all, but the original prices the games should have been priced at in the majority of cases.

It's all very well people saying don't buy at the higher price to teach Microsoft a lesson, but this is what I mean about the developers missing out on a substantial amount of money, causing them to think twice about developing arcade titles for XBLA in future. Microsoft need to start listening to both public and developers alike rather than trying to justify some of these ridiculously steep prices which only serves to line their own pockets in the short term and not the creators of these games we are buying.

re: 2nd Annual Summer of Arcade kicks off July 22nd

Rdeal — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:33:05 GMT

I think the prices are ok even Turtles because it ain't just a port its a remake and i prefer that they remake them and charge a higher price than just porting them at a lower price.

i will buy every title there and think it's a good deal.

People keep going on about how high priced games are buy to me they are a hell of a lot cheaper than they used to be,i remember paying £80 for a copy Streetfighter 2 and every game i bought was £50,now i can pick games up for £20-40 and i earn 4 times as much as i used to